The owner attempting to fight a city order to repair or demolish an Owen Drive shopping center wants to reschedule an appeals hearing.

On May 30, Fayetteville officials gave Bill Agapion, a Greensboro lawyer who owns the shopping center, 60 days to repair or demolish his property on Owen Drive at Southern Avenue.

In early June, Agapion filed notice of an appeal with the city's Board of Appeals on Dwellings and Buildings. The board had been scheduled to meet today to consider the matter.

On Wednesday, assistant city attorney Brian Meyer said Agapion notified the city that he needed to cancel the meeting and wished to reschedule after July 4.

Meyer said the board would attempt to reschedule the hearing. He said the city will typically grant only one rescheduling, if enough advance notice is given.

Meyer said the city won a tentative consent order this month in Cumberland County's Environmental Court to have the entire shopping center razed. The order has not been signed by a judge yet.

The property, built in 1965, once housed the Palomino and South Beach nightclubs. They closed four years ago, and more than half of the center is vacant. The center's three tenants include a Family Dollar, which is planning to move into a new building on the same site, Beauty Giant & Furniture and Parker Pawn. The pawnshop is planning to relocate on the other side of Owen Drive on what is now a vacant lot.

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